by LetsRun.com
November 16, 2018
Who are the favorites for the 2018 NCAA Cross Country Championships? Well we’ve tabulated the early votes of those that have already entered the $200,018 LetsRun.com Running Warehouse NCAA D1 Cross-Country Prediction Contest and the LetsRun.com faithful believe that the New Mexico women are the favorites as they’ve garnered more than 3 times as many first-place votes as Oregon.
In the individual battle, Weini Kelati has more first place votes than everyone else combined and nearly 10 times as many as last year’s champ Ednah Kurgat, the #3 choice.
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Kurgat and Keilati
See the results for yourself below, but if you haven’t already entered our free prediction contest, do so now. It only takes 10 minutes and playing fantasy xc is lots of fun: $200,018 LetsRun.com Running Warehouse NCAA D1 Cross-Country Prediction Contest.
LRC Team Picks (in our contest, people only pick top 10)
LetsRun.com Women’s Super Poll Results |
1. |
New Mexico (282) |
4333 |
2. |
Oregon (83) |
3719 |
3. |
Colorado (57) |
3599 |
4. |
Boise St (25) |
3232 |
5. |
Arkansas (16) |
2603 |
6. |
Michigan |
1767 |
7. |
Stanford (2) |
1648 |
8. |
Villanova (1) |
1098 |
9. |
Wisconsin (1) |
792 |
10. |
BYU (1) |
769 |
11. |
NC State (3) |
421 |
12. |
Washington |
410 |
13. |
Michigan St |
327 |
14. |
Iowa St |
244 |
15. |
Notre Dame |
237 |
16. |
Furman |
141 |
17. |
Portland |
101 |
18. |
Dartmouth (1) |
89 |
19. |
Florida (1) |
73 |
20. |
Florida St |
71 |
Others receiving votes: 21. Penn St 68 22. Texas 62 23. Columbia 57 24. Oklahoma St 54 25. Minnesota 49 26. Indiana 45 27. Georgia Tech 37 28. Princeton 26 29. Southern Utah 23 30. Ole Miss 18 31. Oregon St 12
Women’s Individual Poll |
1. |
Weini Kelati (244) – New Mexico SO |
3327 |
2. |
Allie Ostrander (64) – Boise State JR |
3048 |
3. |
Ednah Kurgat (26) – New Mexico JR |
2772 |
4. |
Alicia Monson (30) – Wisconsin JR |
2218 |
5. |
Dani Jones (12) – Colorado SR |
1997 |
6. |
Jessica Hull (3) – Oregon SR |
1617 |
7. |
Dorcas Wasike (1) – Louisville JR |
862 |
8. |
Elise Cranny – Stanford SR |
712 |
9. |
Anna Rohrer (4) – Notre Dame JR |
711 |
10. |
Sharon Lokedi (3) – Kansas SR |
583 |
11. |
Katrina Robinson – Arkansas FR |
481 |
12. |
Weronika Pyzik – Oregon SR |
365 |
13. |
Katie Rainsberger – Washington JR |
344 |
14. |
Charlotte Prouse – New Mexico SR |
314 |
15. |
Cailie Logue (1) – Iowa State SO |
224 |
16. |
Susan Ejore – Oregon SR |
192 |
17. |
Fiona OKeeffe – Stanford JR |
168 |
18. |
Rachel McArthur – Villanova SO |
161 |
19. |
Erica Birk – BYU JR |
148 |
20. |
Shannon Malone (1) – Syracuse SR |
124 |
Others receiving votes: 21. Militsa Mircheva 103 22. Clare OBrien 81 23. Makena Morley 69 24. Winny Koskei 68 25. Taylor Werner 61 26. Elly Henes 49 27. Lauren LaRocco 46 28. Winny Koech 45 29. Aubrey Roberts 42 30. Anne Forsyth 37 31. Avery Evenson 36 32. Katherine Receveur 34 33. Isabelle Brauer 29 34. Jessica Pascoe 28 35. Annie Fuller 28 36. Alison Willingmyre 27 37. Anne Frisbie 24 38. Angie Nickerson 23 39. Dominique Clairmonte 21 40. Caroline Alcorta 20 41. Carina Viljoen 20 42. Tabor Scholl 20 43. Taryn Rawlings 18 44. Egle Morenaite 18 45. Bethany Hasz 17 46. Lauren Gregory 16 47. Katie Wasserman 14 48. Grace Mancini 14 49. Libby Kokes 13 50. Sophie Cantine 13 51. Elisabeth Bergh 12 52. Nicole Hutchinson 12 53. Abigail Green 12 54. Jacqueline Gaughan 11 55. Andrea Masterson 11 56. Destiny Collins 11 57. Jaci Smith 11 58. Taylor Knibb 10 59. Savannah Carnahan 10 60. Jessica Drop 9 61. Erin Gregoire 9 62. Margaret Allen 8 63. Danae Rivers 8 64. Elizabeth Funderburk 7 65. Lisa Tertsch 5 66. Allyson Girard 5 67. Clio Ozanne-Jaques 4 68. Hannah Miller 4 69. Svenja Ojstersek 4 70. Madeline Villalba 3 71. Joyce Kimeli 2 72. Purity Sanga 2 73. Logan Morris 2 74. Hannah Steelman 1 |
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Who is the LRC nation voting for in the men’s race? Find out here: The LetsRun Nation Votes: NAU Is HEAVILY Favored Over BYU, Fans Are Split Between McDonald and Fisher.
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